A computer scientist has been set up to have pledgeted conlure of court for counterfeitly and remenddly claiming to be the enigmatic produceor of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto.
In March, the High Court ruled Craig Wright was not Satoshi, and ordered him to stop claiming he was.
However, he persistd to begin legitimate cases declareing he had intellectual property rights to Bitcoin, including a claim he was owed $1.2 trillion ($911 billion).
A appraise shelp that amounted to a “flagrant bachieve” of the exceptional court order and sentenced him to 12 months in prison, postponeed for two years.
It uncomfervents if Wright – who is from Australia but inhabits in the UK – persists to claim he produceed the cryptocurrency he will face being jailed.
However, Wright, who materializeed via videoconnect, declined to disseal where he was, saying only he was in Asia.
It uncomfervents an international arrest authorization would have to be publishd if the UK authorities wanted to arrest him.
Wright’s actions were depictd in court as “legitimate radicalism” that “put people thcimpolite personal hell” in his campaign to be recognised as Bitcoin’s produceor.
The appraise, Mr Justice Mellor, shelp Wright arguments were “legitimate nonsense” but acunderstandledged that he was not in the UK and “materializes to be well conscious of countries with which the UK does not have extradition set upments”.
‘Lied extensively’
Starting in 2016, Wright claimed to be the man behind the enigmatic moniker Satoshi Nakamoto – generassociate understandn as Satoshi – the person who produceed the world’s first and bigst cryptocurrency.
As the set uper of Bitcoin, Satoshi could be one of the richest people in the world, with more than $100bn (£80bn) worth of the cryptocurrency appraised to be in their digital wallets.
However, Wright flunked to provide concrete evidence for his claim, which was bigly dissee by the cryptocurrency world.
In an try to declare he was Satoshi he begined costly legitimate cases aacquirest people and companies that contestd him.
His actions prompted a coalition of industry companies – the Crypto Open Patent Alliance (COPA) – to force a high court trial this year to stop him from carrying out any further legitimate cases.
A appraise ruled in their favour saying Wright had “lied extensively” to help his counterfeit claim.
Copa lawyer Jonathan Hough shelp elements of Wright’s carry out during the trial “stray into farce” – but he telderly the court it also had “lethal grave” consequences and produced a “chilling effect” on the industry.
